Man. This was really fucking well done, to the point where I couldn't tell it was supposed to be part of that series until a good chunk of the way into the article, which was a cool surprise. It subverts and plays around with a lot of creepy pasta and horror tropes quite nicely, and I'm happy to give it my +1.

I'm sort of confused about the chain of events here, unless I'm missing something. It seems from the last interview that 3012 died or faded out somehow, but now they're just uncontained? Maybe add some more clarification.

Other than that, +1- this is such a real and relatable character, which is what I love about GAW.

From what I can gather, 3012's physical body is gone, but his consciousness still exists and can cause the Dybbuk events. However with no physical body to communicate with, it's not possible to conduct more interviews, and since previous containment relied on the physical body those methods no longer work

I'm with you here. I'm even willing to switch my level of hatred for this GOI from 'unbridled' to 'bridled'.

But, speaking to my personal enjoyment of the articles, I think the novelty of GAW is going to run dry before it has a chance to drive a continued trend away from its lolmemes origin. My emotional mileage on internet chatroom sociology was limited to begin with, given that I'm not one of those folks who really identifies with GAW's IRC characters.

I feel that people think it's "lolmemes" because they're so tunnel-visioned on the group name, a Bernie Sanders article that the creators of the GoI didn't even write, and the fact that the group is made up of young adults/teenagers who hang out on IRC, that they don't really realize that there's surprisingly few GAW articles that are "lolmemes".

Maybe 2293 is a meme? It's one made up for the article, tho. Different Kind of Nihilism is about suicide and political depression. What Passes As Normal is about being trans. There's nothing lolmemes about those two, and it's really fucking ignorant when it keeps getting thrown around in reference to my works.

I'm sorry that I'm making an association that you feel is unfair and not fitting the gravity of your work. But I've never read those two tales of yours, and I have read the Misters Against Weed and that Bernie Sanders, and it's the articles I've read rather than the ones I haven't read that formed my opinion of this GOI, unsurprisingly!

I don't think you should expect folks to read absolutely all of your oeuvre and everything under a GOI tag before they're allowed to have an opinion on one of your articles.

I suppose I'm using 'lolmemes' as an emotional shorthand for how I see basis and tone of GAW. The whole concept of having "Misters Against Weed" feels very tongue-in-cheek, meta and overly humour-focused to me - 'lolmemes', in other words.

It's viscerally uncomfortable having to read this guy's dialogue: the childish little repetition of "dorko", the swears almost compulsively thrown into his speech, the sentences crushed into stilted rhythms that sit uncomfortably on the ear like so much broken glass… for such a hollow man, maybe ending it with not a bang but a whimper was an appropriate choice.